Sentences with phrase «bill up for debate»

Sen. Lamar Alexander, who will be taking over the Senate's education committee, has declared an NCLB update his top priority, and he wants to attack the issue fast, potentially having a bill up for debate before the end of January.

Another bill up for debate is the proposed pied - à - terre tax.

Conservatives want to cut up to 5 % from the program, but the bill up for debate cuts about 1 % percent, which some legislators say is still too much.

«This is a simple, practical measure that could make a big difference; I hope the B.C. Liberals will put partisanship aside and put this bill up for debate.

Not exact matches

Euro zone officials have long debated setting up a deposit insurance scheme but Germany opposes this, fearing that German taxpayers would be asked to foot the bill for bailing out weaker banks on the currency bloc's periphery.

What sort of relief big foreign banks would get from the bill has been up for debate.

Its amazing how we argue against something deemed to help our citizens, yet if a gun control bill was up for debate people would be in arms (pun intended) about their right to own guns.

He also will have a significant role in the next Farm Bill debate which will be up for reauthorization in 2018.

I honestly don't know why time and energy are being spent offering and debating such a bill, other than (a) to make Thom Tillis and the other GOP backers look good and reasonable without real consequence for doing so, and (b) to maybe lock in the GOP to setting up such a select committee / reappointing Mueller before it becomes necessary to do so.

As the State Senate today passed «Kirby & Quigley's Law» by a 59 - 2 vote, Senator Jim Tedisco (R,C,I,REF - Glenville), the author and lead sponsor of the bill, has announced a new online petition drive to harness the power of the people to urge the Assembly to bring the public safety measure to the Floor of the New York State Assembly for a debate and up or down vote.

As the State Senate today passed «Kirby & Quigley's Law by a 59 - 1 vote, Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) has announced a new online petition drive to harness the power of the people to urge the Speaker of the Assembly to bring the bill to the Floor of the New York State Assembly for a debate and up or down vote.

In a recent Politico.com article, one unnamed executive was quoted as saying Gillibrand had «Chutzpah» to raise money from Wall Street, and then not stand up for the industry during the debate on the bill.

Mr Davies used up parliamentary time by talking for four and a half hours on a short bill to deport foreign criminals — so there wasn't time to debate it.

Each June, the last scheduled month of the annual legislative sessions, such bills pop up for quick floor votes with little debate or public review.

The Senate finished debating the SUNY 2020 bill and are now taking up the so - called «big ugly» omnibus measure, which includes a 2 percent property tax cap, mandate relief and a long - term rent control extension for New York City.

The CIOT urged Holyrood to keep these processes under review as the new tax powers take effect from next month, citing earlier calls for the introduction of an annual Scottish Finance Bill as a means of strengthening effective scrutiny of Scottish tax proposals and joining up the political and technical debates about tax in Scotland2.

Then, his long - fought - for immigration bill came up for debate in Congress.

In northern New York, a large audience showed up for the debate televised on YNN was held in the contentious race between Democrat incumbent Bill Owens and Republican challenger Matt Doheny.

After lawmakers spent the whole day at the Capitol waiting for the debate to begin, by 11:30 p.m. it was evident that the Democrats were not able to bring up the bill.

Health care, an issue of hot debate across the country, has been a focus for Democrats in the 19th district, especially considering Faso's involvement in a provision in the House bill that upstate Republicans in Congress have lined up to support.

Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory said that even without Spencer's support, he still expected the bill to be up for debate when the Legislature next meets in September.

A bill that would legalize same - sex marriages comes up for debate in the state's Senate Judiciary Committee.

«Just as Congresswoman Stefanik worked to improve the House bill before it came up for a vote, we expect senators to debate and possibly amend this draft before it is finalized.»

The White House will not make a formal statement about the bill until it is scheduled for debate on the House floor «but you shouldn't take the silence officially up until now as assent,» Holdren said, adding «I will make clear my personal opinion that the COMPETES act is bad for science, bad for scientists and engineers, and bad for the federal science agencies that would be authorized by the bill.

It was the first in a series of critical votes on emotive issues in committee stage debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - the biggest shake - up of law in this area for 20 years.

When Abel tells a wayward young black father to man up and be a steward for his baby or have his motherfucking head blown off, there's something — not something subtle, but something nonetheless — fascinating about Lakeview Terrace's willingness to be a survey of the element of the race debate (the Bill Cosby voice of black reason, for instance, or the Barack Obama message of the same) that causes the most confusion and consternation among the ruling class.

The HHC had moved House Bill 639 further than any previous proposal to set up tax credits for scholarship donations; no prior proposal had made it to a floor debate in either the House or Senate.

And in the past few years, as debates about merit pay for school teachers have come up, major public figures such as Bill Gates and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have questioned the wisdom of rewarding teachers for degrees.

After each house had passed their Common Core repeal bills, the House Education Committee had planned to take up the Senate's version for debate last Thursday.

Several bills that could curb the growth of Louisiana's charter schools are up for debate in the state legislature this week.

So be up - front about money and look for opportunities to talk about your views of it, such as when you pay your bills, when you debate whether to make a purchase, when you put together the household budget, even when you get a raise or consider whether to change jobs.

After Aug. 2010, I moved back to VA but apparently the only issue up for debate here and responsible for the astronomical bill, is my short 2009 stint in MD, from Aug. 2009 to Dec. 2009.

Things are not 100 % free and clear in Toledo, as residents still fall under the state law that deems «pit bulls» as vicious — however, that law is also up for debate when the state Senate session begins again next month (a bill removing breed specific legislation from the state law passed in the House of Representatives last Spring).

As Laura Nirenberg, legislative analyst for Best Friends» Focus on Felines campaign, pointed out to me, the bill's language already addresses many issues brought up in the debate.

I believe Senator Reid has scheduled the first week of June to bring up a couple of the different bills that are on the path for debate on the Senate floor.

All are fence - sitters on the legislation and their votes will be needed when the Senate bill comes up for debate early next year.

During the debate on the second reading of the Bill, the justice secretary Ken Clarke revealed the possibility «up to # 20m» to help Citizens Advice Bureau, law centres and other not - for - profit advice agencies to provide social welfare law advice.

The Senate vote tightened in the evening hours, as the Senate's privacy hawks worked to drum up support for further debate around the surveillance bill, opening the door for amendments that could limit the government's ability to use the loophole to surveil American citizens without first obtaining a warrant.

The bill, H.R. 2001, will not come up for a vote this year, NAR analysts say, but it's already providing fuel for political debate.

Recently, as lawmakers continue to debate infrastructure bills, a new report released by the Center for American Progress proposes a plan to enable significant progress in bringing America's infrastructure up to par.